Abstract

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its
publication. Other documents may supersede this document. The latest status of
this document series is maintained at the W3C.

On 19 July, 2001, this document enters a Proposed Recommendation review
period. From that date until 16 August, 2001, W3C Advisory Committee
representatives are encouraged to review this specification and return comments
to w3t-svg@w3.org, which is visible to the
W3C Team only.

After the review, the W3C Director will announce the document's disposition:
it may become a W3C Recommendation (possibly with minor changes), it may revert
to Working Draft status, or it may be dropped as a W3C work item. This
announcement should not be expected sooner than 14 days after the end of the
review.

The SVG specification was a W3C Candidate Recommendation for a review
period which ended on 02 February, 2001. During that period the W3C SVG Working
Group members encouraged implementation using the specification and comment on
it; the Working Group continues to do so. A report on
implementation status
was made at the end of the Candidate
Recommendation review period. It is intended that this will be updated from time
to time by the follow-on activity that oversees the SVG Recommendation,
whatever that may be. The W3C SVG Working Group has maintained a public Web
page http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ which
contains further background information.
A list of changes
since the updated
Candidate Recommendation specification of 02 November, 2000 is available.

The substantial implementation experience with generators, viewers and
transcoders based on the SVG specification and the amount of SVG content that has been developed to date
encouraged the Working Group to ask the W3C Director to advance this document to
Proposed Recommendation status.

Publication as a Proposed Recommendation does not imply endorsement by the
W3C membership. This is still a draft document and may be updated, replaced or
made obsolete by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite W3C
Proposed Recommendations as other than "work in progress."

There are patent disclosures and license commitments associated with the
SVG 1.0 specification. These may be found on the SVG 1.0 Patent Statements in
conformance with W3C
policy.